If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded. |
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt |
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. |
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. |
Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy! |
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. |
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. |
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. |
In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched. |
In books lies the soul of the whole past time. |
In epochs when cash payment has become the sole nexus of man to man. |
In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing |
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment. |
In idleness there is a perpetual despair |
In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it. |